I've been using MPEG4IP since before a Slingbox was trendy, not sure buy maybe before it was released. It's not exactly meant to be used the way I used it, but I can stream audio and video from my TV card and I can change channels when I want as well.
I've done my part. The only way I'll buy a Windows game for Wine is from Half Price Books or a used place or something, basically the "We didn't make a profit so we're dumping our inventory" store. It doesn't mean I have to wait a long time for a game, it means I grab a game for $4.00 that used to be $45.00 and hope I can make it work, usually with limited success.
On another note, I'll go out of my way to buy a Linux compatible game new, even if I'm not sure I'm going to play it.
People will continue to dual boot as long as they have to keep playing their games because game developers ignore what their customers want.
Developers will continue to make Windows only as long as customers dual boot.
What really terrifies me is the new "Games for Windows" strategy Microsoft has come up with. They saw the threat and came up with a system to combat it. Now the same developers who are claimed in the past to be neutral, but on the Windows bandwagon simply for reasons of investment vs. return are jumping all over the "Games for Windows". bandwagon. I'll admit, nice looking durable boxes in a standardized packaging are a good likable idea that probably should have been done years ago, but when MS leads the charge on something there's usually some arm twisting along the way.
Problem solved. With a good enough runtime environment all mouse/keyboard systems can be developed one time. The only systems that will need rework are the control pad/pointing stick systems (consoles)
I advocate not buying Windows games. Before I was robbed I had a stack of Loki games, I had about 40% of their website offerings on my desk. I actually gave away/threw away most of my Windows games once I went hardcore Linux. Back at the time, before Blizzard started suing their fans, Star Craft and Diablo were two of the games I actually tried to get working on Wine. I had Starcraft working in a crappy little non-mouse grabbing window, Diablo was a lost cause. As of this point I really don't care if support improved or not.
I'm very much against suing ones own supporters. I no longer have any Metallica CD's either, for the exact same reason.
Dude, all the UT games outright rock on Linux, as long as you have an NVidia card you should get a little better performance out of the Linux version vs. the Windows version on the same system almost without exception. (Unreal 2 the Awakening is the only one that doesn't do Linux)
There's just one thing you really have to know: "export SETUP_CDROM=(path to your optical drive)"
Are you going to be one of those nay sayers who use the "Systems sold with Linux pre-installed" as your only source? Remember, tracking the number of Linux systems out there is nearly impossible due to it's licensing setup and the fact few of the systems running it were bought with it pre-installed. Any statistics for or against Linux when it comes to install base will be wrong. Asking for a source on statistics is just a sign of ignorance.
So you're telling me Mac OSX games have to use Carbon and Cocoa to work? Surprises the hell out of me considering how many Linux applications port/compile on Mac OSX without Carbon or Cocoa in mind in the least.
Perhaps the gaming industry should start on the Mac port by making a Linux port then compiling it on OSX. Everyones happy, the Linux version would then work on Linux and Mac equally as well. The industry has one cop out after the other. When people can no longer easily compile Linux apps on OSX use your reasoning. Until then I don't really hear it.
That just expands on the ignorance of the software developer market as a whole. RPM files originated from Redhat and are used on just a few distros now, which are losing Linux market share. Debian based distros are taking the Linux market by storm, not only Debian (which granted has a meager share) but the Ubuntu Linux distros are where it's at now. For those on a budget Fry's and Micro Center have sold enough PC's with Linspire (also Debian based) to edge out RPM based Redhat and SuSE.
Does this mean I'm saying you should make a.deb? NO you should make a.sh like Atari has done with UT. I laugh at developers who say it's to hard to support Linux when ultra complex SDL games have been doing it for years, and ID has been doing it before SDL. Use a cross platform runtime environment and the issues are cut dramatically. Look at SCUMM, nobody was thinking about Linux when Lucas started SCUMM, but because the engine could be cross compiled all the old SCUMM games run on nearly everything now (not just PC's and gaming systems)
Game manufacturer avoid Linux for one reason besides Laziness. Tech support. They don't want 9,000,000 Linux newbies calling their support lines in unison with every distro under the sun demanding tech support, so rather than setting up an "unsupported" model or a secondary less involved system like Atari does they just say "Not gonna do it" all together.
I do not dual boot. I don't have a Windtendo either. I have several friends in the same boat as well. Who's wrong here, a consumer thinking companies should use code that's cross platform compatible (SDL makes it easy) or the game developer not only supporting a monopoly but doing what they can to ensure the monopoly continues?
As long as Blizzard continues to sue their fans after leading them along with a carrot, as long as my buddy is still an expert witness in a lawsuit involving them and BNetD, as long as they still continue to ignore Linux (but support Mac, on X86) they'll not get my money.
Yes I looked at the pictures. Yes it looks awesome. Yes there was a time I used to play Star Craft for hours after hours at work with my coworker. Those times are gone (BTW, as a former Novell guy, I actually liked IPX)
On another note - no more excuses. Supporting Mac OSX on X86 and not supporting Linux is nothing short of Laziness now. Back when Mac OS wasn't *Nix, back when Macs ran on Motorola processors, back when the Mac still sucked there was an excuse for compiling for one but not the other. The excuse it gone now.
IE is a big memory hog. The difference between IE and Firefox is when you hit the little X on Firefox, it exits memory. IE closes the window, well, that's about it, it stays in memory. See, when you load windows, you load IE also, Thats why there isn't a very big memory jump when you bring up IE, it was already loaded. The old "Win 98 lite" and several other Windows shell replacements through out history (I was quite fond of lite step back when I used Windows) actually prevented IE from loading except when it was needed. THESE applications actually improved system performance because only the browser you currently wanted loaded would load.
damn straight, and make sure the court systems sees no repercussions for restricting our rights to be assholes to make the PC types happy! Remember, if we allow the courts to continue to restrict our rights to be assholes Slashdot will no longer exist.
"The power of your computer is directly proportional to the number of blinking lights that it has."
I like my lights. My DSL sucks, and at a glance I can look over at my DSL device and tell if the connection is down again or if something else is hosed. Verizon is tired of hearing from me. The light on my monitor tells me at a glance if the monitor is off or just in power save, so I know if I should shake the mouse, hit the power button on the monitor, or failing that cut power because it's locked up again (I'm tracking that at the moment, I think it's a flakey HDD). I'm picky about power consumption, (don't tell me LEDs use to much power, I will laugh at you), that LED being on or not tells me what needs to be turned off.
Besides, I work at NASA (for reals even) and I like my LED's. The first part of every day is spent checking LED's on the CDSS system to make sure all the power supplies are nominal. If I didn't have those LEDs I would have to put a meter on each and every one of them, then it would become the first four or more hours of my day.
There are several things that need to change to make Linux ubiquitous. The current "It's free come and get it" concept works for those who want it, but what about those who don't know they want it? I have some ideas for this.
Back when Quake III Arena first came out, the boxed set came with a copy of SuSE Linux, I think it was 6.0. I thought "What a cool idea, you can buy a game and it comes with an OS that can run it for free." Chances are few copies of that SuSE Linux 6.0 were actually put to use, but then another idea came to mind. With most cool FPS games that come out, someone invariably makes a Linux demo boot CD (or DVD these days). What if we were able to influence manufactures, starting with Atari and Bioware who've historically been decent towards Linux, if not exactly head over heals to make all their Linux compatible games bootable? I'm not saying make it where it wont play in Windows, that would be corporate suicide. But the best work around for Windows drivers and memory use issues could simply be "put the disk in your drive and reboot". Sure, there would need to be a bit of hard drive (or even thumb drive) space used for game saves, maybe some for swap space, but seems to me the best way around Windows firewalls, spyware, viri, and Nazi DRM is to not run Windows. We could even expand on this by making an entire desktop (themed towards the game of course) selectable from the DVD Grub menu, and in the spirit of Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, and Ubuntu, make it installable on the HDD from the menu, where of course the package manager can add more from there.
Another idea is to distribute "no install" software in GPL virtual machines. These could be dangled in front of people who are hesitant to actually install software, or possibly people who aren't supposed to be installing software on their work PC's. I could think many uses for a copy of the Gimp or OpenOffice.org running from flash drive or CD in a minimal Linux desktop on a virtual machine. If all it had was the built in file manager (with the ability to access local files via auto mounting of local drives) and the gimp/OpenOffice.org running on an otherwise empty X desktop it would make my day. If you make it clear to the user during Virtual Machine OS booting that this is made possible by $Distro that's advertising.
The game disk distribution method is obvious, it starts with getting existing publishers on board. The individual application method? That's a little tougher. The first idea that came into my head is to put disk in the newspaper like AOL used to, but that takes massive amounts of money, something most open source projects don't have. While cereal boxes and Happy Meals are tempting distribution methods, others are more likely. A big "portable software" site would probably be one of the best ideas going. Get people hooked on the portable applications, as they use more and more of them start pushing Linux as the "home base". "Portable" versions of Firefox, Pidgin/Kopete, OpenOffice.org, the Gimp among a few others would appeal to a broad base of users. The road towards success will begin with those sneaking around the no-install policies or machine moochers.
Well, I'm guessing if you talk to the right Time Lord, he'll tell you were he placed a mirror a long ways off just before the big bang so that you can point at it with a telescope and in turn see the birth of the universe in its reflection.
Shuttle range wont really matter. They're retiring the fleet. I'm not sure if it will be in Ares I range or not, but it will surely be in Ares V range. The one thing I worry about on the whole Ares/Orin setup. The shuttle wasn't the best of designs for a lot of things, but one thing it was - it was a good work platform. Going back to capsules is great for a lot of reasons, but I do think an Ares V work platform module would be a good idea. Maybe even Ares I launchable fuel containers. I'll run that past the brain bunch, they shot down my whole Hubble as an ISS hood ornament idea really fast.
Unfortunately you beat me to the punch on this one, I spent to much time double checking flight numbers and which OV's were going to be used. Sadly enough I use Wikipedia. I can't find shit on the NASA site half the time
but with a backup shuttle in orbit in case the first one gets into trouble.
Can you please site a source for this? Right now the software cannot actually support more than one shuttle in orbit at a time, if you look there has never been more than one up at a time. If there were this type of upgrade coming I could buy that story, but considering we're going to retire the fleet soon I don't see that as likely. I haven't installed any Aries specific equipment yet, but judging by the age of most of the shuttle specific equipment on the ground they're not going to do that level of a software rewrite for the shuttle when the fleets this close to retirement. Another issue with this statement is the shear altitude of the Hubble, well above ISS orbit. If we launched one into high orbit, and kept one at low orbit the one in low orbit simply wouldn't be able to reach the one in high orbit without landing for fuel anyways. Those things launch with their trajectories pretty much set and only do slight manuvering. STS-125 is the designated flight for Hubble servicing to be done by Atlantis, there is an as yet unnumbered contingency rescue flight, I don't think they number those unless they launch these days. They may put Discovery on the pad in ready position for rescue, but I seriously doubt they'll launch it unless they have to.
On another note: There are emergency two shuttle protocols. What that comes down to more or less is equipment time sharing.
My guess is getting Slashdotted is probably the best thing going for this woman. Two things can buy justice in American courts, money and eyeballs. Money makes the world go round and with the exception of certain eyeball cases is all that is needed for a victory. Eyeballs on the other hand guarantee that if a court gives a fucked up ruling they'll suffer for it.
It's unfortunate it comes down to needing one of the two for justice to happen.
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I've been using MPEG4IP since before a Slingbox was trendy, not sure buy maybe before it was released. It's not exactly meant to be used the way I used it, but I can stream audio and video from my TV card and I can change channels when I want as well.
I've done my part. The only way I'll buy a Windows game for Wine is from Half Price Books or a used place or something, basically the "We didn't make a profit so we're dumping our inventory" store. It doesn't mean I have to wait a long time for a game, it means I grab a game for $4.00 that used to be $45.00 and hope I can make it work, usually with limited success.
On another note, I'll go out of my way to buy a Linux compatible game new, even if I'm not sure I'm going to play it.
It's the chicken and the egg thing.
People will continue to dual boot as long as they have to keep playing their games because game developers ignore what their customers want.
Developers will continue to make Windows only as long as customers dual boot.
What really terrifies me is the new "Games for Windows" strategy Microsoft has come up with. They saw the threat and came up with a system to combat it. Now the same developers who are claimed in the past to be neutral, but on the Windows bandwagon simply for reasons of investment vs. return are jumping all over the "Games for Windows". bandwagon. I'll admit, nice looking durable boxes in a standardized packaging are a good likable idea that probably should have been done years ago, but when MS leads the charge on something there's usually some arm twisting along the way.
Portable cross platform runtime environment.
Problem solved. With a good enough runtime environment all mouse/keyboard systems can be developed one time. The only systems that will need rework are the control pad/pointing stick systems (consoles)
I advocate not buying Windows games. Before I was robbed I had a stack of Loki games, I had about 40% of their website offerings on my desk. I actually gave away/threw away most of my Windows games once I went hardcore Linux. Back at the time, before Blizzard started suing their fans, Star Craft and Diablo were two of the games I actually tried to get working on Wine. I had Starcraft working in a crappy little non-mouse grabbing window, Diablo was a lost cause. As of this point I really don't care if support improved or not.
I'm very much against suing ones own supporters. I no longer have any Metallica CD's either, for the exact same reason.
Dude, all the UT games outright rock on Linux, as long as you have an NVidia card you should get a little better performance out of the Linux version vs. the Windows version on the same system almost without exception. (Unreal 2 the Awakening is the only one that doesn't do Linux)
There's just one thing you really have to know: "export SETUP_CDROM=(path to your optical drive)"
Sources?
Are you going to be one of those nay sayers who use the "Systems sold with Linux pre-installed" as your only source? Remember, tracking the number of Linux systems out there is nearly impossible due to it's licensing setup and the fact few of the systems running it were bought with it pre-installed. Any statistics for or against Linux when it comes to install base will be wrong. Asking for a source on statistics is just a sign of ignorance.
So you're telling me Mac OSX games have to use Carbon and Cocoa to work? Surprises the hell out of me considering how many Linux applications port/compile on Mac OSX without Carbon or Cocoa in mind in the least.
Perhaps the gaming industry should start on the Mac port by making a Linux port then compiling it on OSX. Everyones happy, the Linux version would then work on Linux and Mac equally as well. The industry has one cop out after the other. When people can no longer easily compile Linux apps on OSX use your reasoning. Until then I don't really hear it.
RPM?
.deb? NO you should make a .sh like Atari has done with UT. I laugh at developers who say it's to hard to support Linux when ultra complex SDL games have been doing it for years, and ID has been doing it before SDL. Use a cross platform runtime environment and the issues are cut dramatically. Look at SCUMM, nobody was thinking about Linux when Lucas started SCUMM, but because the engine could be cross compiled all the old SCUMM games run on nearly everything now (not just PC's and gaming systems)
That just expands on the ignorance of the software developer market as a whole. RPM files originated from Redhat and are used on just a few distros now, which are losing Linux market share. Debian based distros are taking the Linux market by storm, not only Debian (which granted has a meager share) but the Ubuntu Linux distros are where it's at now. For those on a budget Fry's and Micro Center have sold enough PC's with Linspire (also Debian based) to edge out RPM based Redhat and SuSE.
Does this mean I'm saying you should make a
Game manufacturer avoid Linux for one reason besides Laziness. Tech support. They don't want 9,000,000 Linux newbies calling their support lines in unison with every distro under the sun demanding tech support, so rather than setting up an "unsupported" model or a secondary less involved system like Atari does they just say "Not gonna do it" all together.
I do not dual boot. I don't have a Windtendo either. I have several friends in the same boat as well. Who's wrong here, a consumer thinking companies should use code that's cross platform compatible (SDL makes it easy) or the game developer not only supporting a monopoly but doing what they can to ensure the monopoly continues?
As long as Blizzard continues to sue their fans after leading them along with a carrot, as long as my buddy is still an expert witness in a lawsuit involving them and BNetD, as long as they still continue to ignore Linux (but support Mac, on X86) they'll not get my money.
Yes I looked at the pictures. Yes it looks awesome. Yes there was a time I used to play Star Craft for hours after hours at work with my coworker. Those times are gone (BTW, as a former Novell guy, I actually liked IPX)
On another note - no more excuses. Supporting Mac OSX on X86 and not supporting Linux is nothing short of Laziness now. Back when Mac OS wasn't *Nix, back when Macs ran on Motorola processors, back when the Mac still sucked there was an excuse for compiling for one but not the other. The excuse it gone now.
Uhmmm, you're wrong on the memory part (sort of)
IE is a big memory hog. The difference between IE and Firefox is when you hit the little X on Firefox, it exits memory. IE closes the window, well, that's about it, it stays in memory. See, when you load windows, you load IE also, Thats why there isn't a very big memory jump when you bring up IE, it was already loaded. The old "Win 98 lite" and several other Windows shell replacements through out history (I was quite fond of lite step back when I used Windows) actually prevented IE from loading except when it was needed. THESE applications actually improved system performance because only the browser you currently wanted loaded would load.
damn straight, and make sure the court systems sees no repercussions for restricting our rights to be assholes to make the PC types happy! Remember, if we allow the courts to continue to restrict our rights to be assholes Slashdot will no longer exist.
You forget, rednecks use tire irons, trucks, 2x4's, buddies and shotguns in their fights.
My moneys still on the fat redneck with high cholesterol.
as far as I'm concerned the court system that said Roommates.com couldn't ask that info should be responsible.
I second that.
"The power of your computer is directly proportional to the number of blinking lights that it has."
I like my lights. My DSL sucks, and at a glance I can look over at my DSL device and tell if the connection is down again or if something else is hosed. Verizon is tired of hearing from me. The light on my monitor tells me at a glance if the monitor is off or just in power save, so I know if I should shake the mouse, hit the power button on the monitor, or failing that cut power because it's locked up again (I'm tracking that at the moment, I think it's a flakey HDD). I'm picky about power consumption, (don't tell me LEDs use to much power, I will laugh at you), that LED being on or not tells me what needs to be turned off.
Besides, I work at NASA (for reals even) and I like my LED's. The first part of every day is spent checking LED's on the CDSS system to make sure all the power supplies are nominal. If I didn't have those LEDs I would have to put a meter on each and every one of them, then it would become the first four or more hours of my day.
There are several things that need to change to make Linux ubiquitous. The current "It's free come and get it" concept works for those who want it, but what about those who don't know they want it? I have some ideas for this.
Back when Quake III Arena first came out, the boxed set came with a copy of SuSE Linux, I think it was 6.0. I thought "What a cool idea, you can buy a game and it comes with an OS that can run it for free." Chances are few copies of that SuSE Linux 6.0 were actually put to use, but then another idea came to mind. With most cool FPS games that come out, someone invariably makes a Linux demo boot CD (or DVD these days). What if we were able to influence manufactures, starting with Atari and Bioware who've historically been decent towards Linux, if not exactly head over heals to make all their Linux compatible games bootable? I'm not saying make it where it wont play in Windows, that would be corporate suicide. But the best work around for Windows drivers and memory use issues could simply be "put the disk in your drive and reboot". Sure, there would need to be a bit of hard drive (or even thumb drive) space used for game saves, maybe some for swap space, but seems to me the best way around Windows firewalls, spyware, viri, and Nazi DRM is to not run Windows. We could even expand on this by making an entire desktop (themed towards the game of course) selectable from the DVD Grub menu, and in the spirit of Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, and Ubuntu, make it installable on the HDD from the menu, where of course the package manager can add more from there.
Another idea is to distribute "no install" software in GPL virtual machines. These could be dangled in front of people who are hesitant to actually install software, or possibly people who aren't supposed to be installing software on their work PC's. I could think many uses for a copy of the Gimp or OpenOffice.org running from flash drive or CD in a minimal Linux desktop on a virtual machine. If all it had was the built in file manager (with the ability to access local files via auto mounting of local drives) and the gimp/OpenOffice.org running on an otherwise empty X desktop it would make my day. If you make it clear to the user during Virtual Machine OS booting that this is made possible by $Distro that's advertising.
The game disk distribution method is obvious, it starts with getting existing publishers on board. The individual application method? That's a little tougher. The first idea that came into my head is to put disk in the newspaper like AOL used to, but that takes massive amounts of money, something most open source projects don't have. While cereal boxes and Happy Meals are tempting distribution methods, others are more likely. A big "portable software" site would probably be one of the best ideas going. Get people hooked on the portable applications, as they use more and more of them start pushing Linux as the "home base". "Portable" versions of Firefox, Pidgin/Kopete, OpenOffice.org, the Gimp among a few others would appeal to a broad base of users. The road towards success will begin with those sneaking around the no-install policies or machine moochers.
Just a couple of days after I made this post the site came back online.
Damn, lost its effect. I would become active again if the Nazism isn't there.
Well, I'm guessing if you talk to the right Time Lord, he'll tell you were he placed a mirror a long ways off just before the big bang so that you can point at it with a telescope and in turn see the birth of the universe in its reflection.
Shuttle range wont really matter. They're retiring the fleet. I'm not sure if it will be in Ares I range or not, but it will surely be in Ares V range. The one thing I worry about on the whole Ares/Orin setup. The shuttle wasn't the best of designs for a lot of things, but one thing it was - it was a good work platform. Going back to capsules is great for a lot of reasons, but I do think an Ares V work platform module would be a good idea. Maybe even Ares I launchable fuel containers. I'll run that past the brain bunch, they shot down my whole Hubble as an ISS hood ornament idea really fast.
Unfortunately you beat me to the punch on this one, I spent to much time double checking flight numbers and which OV's were going to be used. Sadly enough I use Wikipedia. I can't find shit on the NASA site half the time
but with a backup shuttle in orbit in case the first one gets into trouble.
Can you please site a source for this? Right now the software cannot actually support more than one shuttle in orbit at a time, if you look there has never been more than one up at a time. If there were this type of upgrade coming I could buy that story, but considering we're going to retire the fleet soon I don't see that as likely. I haven't installed any Aries specific equipment yet, but judging by the age of most of the shuttle specific equipment on the ground they're not going to do that level of a software rewrite for the shuttle when the fleets this close to retirement. Another issue with this statement is the shear altitude of the Hubble, well above ISS orbit. If we launched one into high orbit, and kept one at low orbit the one in low orbit simply wouldn't be able to reach the one in high orbit without landing for fuel anyways. Those things launch with their trajectories pretty much set and only do slight manuvering. STS-125 is the designated flight for Hubble servicing to be done by Atlantis, there is an as yet unnumbered contingency rescue flight, I don't think they number those unless they launch these days. They may put Discovery on the pad in ready position for rescue, but I seriously doubt they'll launch it unless they have to.
On another note:
There are emergency two shuttle protocols. What that comes down to more or less is equipment time sharing.
My guess is getting Slashdotted is probably the best thing going for this woman. Two things can buy justice in American courts, money and eyeballs. Money makes the world go round and with the exception of certain eyeball cases is all that is needed for a victory. Eyeballs on the other hand guarantee that if a court gives a fucked up ruling they'll suffer for it.
It's unfortunate it comes down to needing one of the two for justice to happen.
Florida:
The only state with its own Fark tag, right between asinine, weird, and dumbass.